Action or inaction : an editorial opinion / June K. Phillips -- ACTFL's 1980 agenda : intention to action / ACTFL staff -- Public relations : making an impact / Vicki B. Galloway -- Public policy : the Washington connection / Becky Howard Owens -- A case study : the foreign language liason / Johanna S.R. Mendelson -- New opportunities for interprofessional cooperation / Norman Abramowitz and Henry Ferguson -- Learning outcomes in the language classroom / Gail Guntermann -- Broadening the middle school curriculum through content : globalizing foreign languages / Lorraine A. Strasheim -- The international high school : a challenge for scholars / Dorothy B. Goodman and Glynis Scott -- Modest proposals for second and foreign language teacher education in the 1980's / Charles R. Hancock -- Language teaching/learning research : a Canadian perspective on status and directions / H.H. Stern and Jim Cummins -- The national assessment of education progress, foreign language education, and the future / Wayne H. Martin.